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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Douce mer
 (Sung text for setting by G. Bizet)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ITA
Murmure autour de ma nacelle,
Douce mer dont les flots chéris,
Ainsi qu'une amante fidèle,
Jettent une plainte eternelle
Sur ces poétique débris.

Que j'aime à flotter sur ton onde,
À l'heure où du haut du rocher
L'oranger, la vigne féconde,
Versent sur ta vague profonde
Une ombre propice au nocher!

Souvent, dans ma barque sans rame,
Me confiant à ton amour,
Comme pour assoupir mon âme,
Je ferme au branle de ta lame
Mes regards fatigués du jour.

 ... 

Note: the Unger score has "Jettant" in stanza 1, line 4, word 1, in all repetitions.

Composition:

    Set to music by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Douce mer", op. 21 no. 14 (1866), published 1873, stanzas 1-3 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 14, Paris, Éd. Choudens

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Adieux à la mer", written 1820, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, no. 20

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Dolce mare", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 90
Word count: 502

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